NIOSH, University of Iowa Offer Free Webinar on How to Protect Against Workplace Exposures

Learn while you lunch with NIOSH and the University of IOWAs Heartland Center for Occupational Safety and Health. These partners will host a webinar on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 focusing on Respiratory Protection: How to Best Protect from Workplace Exposures. The objectives of this webinar include sharing recent clinical events and related research findings on breaches in respiratory protective compliance as well as suggested strategies to reinforce healthcare workers proper use of respiratory protection.

Both donning and doffing are carefully laid out, but it’s the doffing part of the procedure that might present the most challenge because it involves the discarding of some of the PPE in a manner that most limits the chance of self-contamination or contaminating someone else.

For those working in healthcare, the relationship with the supply chain department was an increasingly important one. Between daily mask utilization and supply reporting to scrambling to find more supplies, those working in healthcare supply chains were working exceedingly hard to keep our heads above water.